Cigar-holder



E. PROMIS. CIGAR HOLDER.

,(No Model.)

No. 437,837. Patented Oct. 7,1890.

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EUGENE PROMIS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGAR-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,837, dated October7, 1890.

Application filed November 12, 1889. Serial No. 330,088. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE PROMIS, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements inCigar-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a device adapted to hold cigarsin such manner that they are easily removable therefrom, which device isso designed and constructed as to be supported and operated within ahat; and it consists of the combination, construction, and operation ofparts hereinafter more particularly set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figuresl and 2 represent good forms of my invention.Figs. 3 and 4 are fragmentary views of modified forms of my device; andFig. 5 is aview of a hat, partly in section, showing a holder embodyingone form of my invention in place therein, and illustrating theemployment of a frictionplate as a good method of support for theholder, and also showing several cigars in place within the holder.

Referring to the drawings, A is a strip of any suitable flexible metalor material, which is bent to the sinuous form shown.

a are the cigar-holding bights or loops. The individual bights or loopsa, formed by the bending or working of the strip A, are preferablyconstructed wider at their bights than at their mouths, and they shouldat their bights be of breadth about correspondent to the thickness of acigar.

The material of which the holder is composed should be of such lengthand flexibility or resilience as to permit it to be curved as 3510 itslongitudinal axis to be placed within a B are supporting devices for theholder, attached to the extremities thereof.

In Fig. 1 I have shown two forms of clasping devices, and when the likeare employed they are attached to the sweatband of the hat.

In Fig. 2 I have shown two forms of friction or pressuresupportingplates, so called. The one at the right-hand extremity of theholder is represented as provided with spurs or teeth as an additionalmeans of securing a firm support, while the one on the left-handextremity of the holder is represented as being without any suchadditional means of securing a support, and when in use is retained inplace by applied pressure alone. hen friction or pressuresupporting-plates are employed, they are preferably located within thehat next to the inner surface and beneath the sweatband, near its top orfree edge, so as not to interfere with the set of the hat on the wearershead, the bending of the holder, as shown and described, serving toretain the plates in place. These plates may be of any suitable size anddesired design, and are attached to the extremities of the holder. Asshown in the drawings, I have conveniently formed this connection bybending the respective extremities of the holder proper to form an eyewhich encircles the rear extension of the clasp, as in Fig. 1, or across-bar at the center of the frictionplate, as in Fig. 2. Thesesupporting devices are located within the hat, one on each side thereof,and the holder proper is of sufficiently greater length than the widthof the crown of the hat to cause it, when inserted within the hat, tohave sufficient arch to impart to it the required clearance for thehead.

When it is desired to place or remove the cigars, the holder A may,without disconnect ing it from its supports, be sprung outward and soform an arc of a circle extending away from the crown of the hat. Thisoperation, as will be obvious, distends or widens the mouths of thebights and permits of the easy insertion or removal of the cigars. It isto permit this springing out of the holder that the connection betweenit and the supporting devices at the points of juncture is a loosejoint-hinge, so to speak.

0, Figs. 1, 3, and 4:, is a strip of resilient, elastic, or flexiblematerial. When employed as shown in Fig. 1 its function is to strengthenthe holder and to keep the bights or loops from being twisted out ofshape. "When employed as shown in Fig. 3, it permits of theemploymentof'separate or independentbights or l0ops,which may be ofvarious sizes, mounted thereon and attached by solder, rivets, orkindred fastenings, and yet is not of suificient length to form directcontact with the supporting devices l3,while in Fig. 4 I have shown thisstrip forming contact with the support ing devices B and the individualcigar-holder bights mounted thereon. These individual holders arepreferably attached to the strip 0 by rivets a passing through theirbases and said strip. The modifications shown as to the individualbights and supporting devices are but few of the many forms in which Imight embody my invention without departing from the spirit of myinvention strictly as such.

It is apparent that by my invention a con- Venient, cheap, andaccessible receptacle for cigars is provided,wherein they are securefrom accidental breakage, and at the same time the large space within ahat is made useful.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In combination with ahat, a cigar-holder consisting of a strip of flexible metal or othersuitable material bent or shaped to form a series of cigar-holdingbights or loops and of length in excess of the width of the crown of thehat to which it is to be applied, the eX- tremities otsaid stripprovided with means for attaching or supporting the same within the hat,said holder adapted to lie above or below the points of support, ineither case assuming the form of an arc of a circle, the

bights or loops, as to their mouths, widening when the holder is archedaway from the crown and narrowing when the holder is arched within thecrown, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with a hat, a cigar-holder formed of a strip offlexible metal or other suitable material bent or shaped to form aseries of cigar-holding loops or bights and of length in excess of thewidth of the crown of the hatto which it is to be applied, and providedwith an exterior strengthening-strip of suitable flexible material incontact with and secured to said loops or bights, the extremities ofsaid holder provided with means for attaching or supporting the samewithin the hat, said holder adapted to lie above or below the points ofsupport, in either case assuming the form of an arc of a circle, as andfor the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 12th day ofSeptember, A. D. 1889.

EUGENE PROMIS.

In presence of- JOHN JoLLnY, J r., W. ALEX. ROBINSON.

